WOKE NJEA Convention

Anti Gun Activists & drag queens

Schools in NJ are closed every November for two days so that teachers can participate in Professional Development on the taxpayers dime. We all should support professional development for the profession when it’s relevant, educational and serves purpose. 

The NJEA has come a long way in the 16 years when they strongly advocated for the worker. Today, the NJEA is nothing but a political organization that uses our children for their advancement of their leftist political agendas. NJEA President Spiller has rapidly advanced the NJEA into a social justice and equity machine and has left worker advocacy in the lurch. It’s quite disturbing and appalling. 

What are the professional development standard(s) that Storytime with Drag Queens, racially motivated rhetoric and anti gun activists falls under? Is this something that will be turn-keyed in school districts all over the State of New Jersey? 

When we say that “political agendas” do not belong in classrooms, this is exactly what “we ” mean. You know, “we”, those “extreme” parents that have been targeted for speaking out. But its the NJEA who are extremists, they pay for keynote speakers who are extreme and controversial across the country.

Lets start with keynote Speaker, anti gun activist, David Hogg. David hog has been verbally attacking Republicans all over the country, so of COURSE, he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the NJEA. What is an anti-gun activist doing at a teacher’s convention? He is a kid that made his career out of being a victim in the parkland shooting in Florida. He is an extremely controversial figure across the country. He isn’t a security professional who will help review safety tips on what to do in the case of school shooters, bombing or any school threat. He’s there to complain about the Republicans.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, another keynote speaker, is and writer for The New York Times Magazine and co-creator of the racially controversial 1619 project.

The goal is the 1619 project is to reframe slavery in the context of the United States and European colonization to claim that our nation didn’t start in 1776, but in 1916 when slaves were brought to America. This allows extreme activists to make the claim that America was founded in racism, and that everything that America did in the past, and does now, is based in racism. In actual history, England brought the slave trade to the new world long before the US was founded, and the legacy of that decision weighed on our nation when it was founded in 1776. The 1619 project rejects the truth that England first brought slaves to America because they feel it "absolves" America of the original sin of slavery. Saying that America was founded on slavery in 1619, instead of 1776, allows racially motivate activists to make the claim that everyone, and every institution in America is racist today in 2020.

And Don’t Forget the Drag Queen Story hour, where the NJEA hired Drag Queens for child story time. The NJEA also had workshops that focused on Gender Identity, the theory that gender is a spectrum and everyone is a little bit male and a little bit female. Gender Expression, a component of gender identity is being pushed in the New Jersey state Standards for grades 3-5.

Drag Queens from Drag Queen Entertainment were hired to Read “I am Jazz” and other contraversary children’s books to teachers and kids at the NJEA convention last week in AC. Astalavista performs for adults as well as children. Watered down drag for kids is just as appropriate as watered down strippers.

Teachers, BOE members and all of New Jersey needs to be embarrassed at this WOKE union convention.